US20020056565A1 - Strain relief and a tool for its application - Google Patents
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- H01R13/5816—Means for relieving strain on wire connection, e.g. cord grip, for avoiding loosening of connections between wires and terminals within a coupling device terminating a cable comprising a separate cable clamping part for cables passing through an aperture in a housing wall, the separate part being captured between cable and contour of aperture
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- H01R9/03—Connectors arranged to contact a plurality of the conductors of a multiconductor cable, e.g. tapping connections
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- the present invention relates to a cable strain relief of the kind defined in the preamble of claim 1.
- the invention also relates to a tool for fitting such a strain relief to a cable in accordance with the preamble of the independent claim directed to the tool.
- a strain relief is a connection element that is coupled to the circumference of a cable and enables forces that act in the length direction of the cable, i.e. axially acting forces, to be transferred to an external construction (e.g. a cable cabinet).
- a cable will normally include a bundle of individual, insulated conductors covered with screen braiding. An insulating sleeve is provided on top of the braiding.
- strain reliefs will preferably be electromagnetically impervious, i.e. provide electromagnetic insulation (EMI), and must also be capable of transferring forces effectively, so as to prevent individual fibers from being subjected to tensile forces in junction boxes or the like.
- EMI electromagnetic insulation
- a known type of strain relief intended for this purpose is comprised. of two tubular parts that have co-acting conical surfaces.
- One part (the inner part) has slits that extend axially from one end thereof, such as to form axially extending tongues.
- the inner part has slits that extend axially from one end thereof, such as to form axially extending tongues.
- the object of the invention is to provide a strain relief that can be fitted to cables of different standard diameters with the aid of a simple tool, such as to obtain an EMI-tight connection and a uniform result on each occasion.
- the invention is basically concerned with establishing a strain relief for a screened cable that includes a plurality of conductors, by crimping a crimp sleeve on that part of the cable at which the braiding has been folded back over said cable, said crimp sleeve incorporating means which function to achieve an EMI-tight coupling of the sleeve to the wall of an apparatus housing at the cable leadthrough or transit.
- Crimp sleeves of this kind are available in various diameters, lengths and wall thicknesses adapted to different cable diameters, so as to ensure that the crimp sleeve will be effectively anchored to the cable with the aid of a crimping tool and therewith provide an EMI-impervious cable connection.
- the larger crimp sleeves include a circumferential groove that reduces the crimping force required to achieve the requisite strain relief anchorage of the crimp sleeve to the cable.
- the inventive crimping tool for crimping such strain relief sleeves may include a tool frame structure that has two generally parallel and mutually opposing frame members. Two opposing crimp inserts are placed between the frame members.
- the inserts include on their mutually facing sides recesses for crimping a sleeve of corresponding diameter on a corresponding cable.
- a screw meshes with a threaded hole through one frame member, so that the screw can be screwed in a direction towards the second frame member such as to bring the two inserts together.
- the inserts include means for guiding relative movement in said direction.
- the two inserts also include spring means which strive to move the inserts apart in said direction.
- the two frame members have shallow recesses for receiving and localizing respective inserts.
- the tool can be used in conjunction with a set of insert pairs which each include crimping recesses that are adapted to crimp sleeves of correspondingly different sizes.
- the insert pairs have generally equal outer dimensions in order to enable said insert pairs to be readily swapped in the frame structure. Owing to the relative guiding of the inserts and the spring means, the pair of inserts will be held automatically in the frame structure immediately the inserts are inserted thereinto, and can readily be replaced manually with another pair of inserts, by first pressing the fitted pair of inserts together against the action of the spring means and then tipping said inserts out one of the recesses and out of the frame structure.
- the recesses in the frame members are shallow recesses.
- the frame structure may conveniently have an elongated support arm and the screw may include a lever for facilitating rotation of the screw.
- FIG. 1 shows an inventive strain relief fitted to the end of a cable and connected to the wall of an apparatus housing.
- FIG. 2 is a cross-sectional view taken on the line A-A in FIG. 1 and images the strain relief prior to being crimped on the end of the cable.
- FIG. 3 illustrates the configuration of the strain relief subsequent to being crimped on the end of the cable.
- FIG. 4 shows a tool for crimping the strain relief sleeve.
- FIG. 5 is a sectional view of a crimping tool insert.
- FIGS. 1 and 2 illustrate a cable 1 comprising a core 2 that includes a plurality of insulated conductors 24 , said core 2 being provided with screening braiding 3 which, in turn, is embraced by a cable casing 4 .
- a length of casing 4 has been removed from the outermost end of the cable 1 and the braiding folded back over the remaining end part of the casing 4 .
- a strain relief sleeve 10 is shown fitted over the backwardly folded screening part 3 ′ of said end section.
- the front part of the sleeve 10 includes an externally threaded section 12 and also an outwardly open circumferential groove 11 between its ends.
- FIG. 1 also shows the wall 20 of an apparatus housing.
- the wall 20 includes an opening 21 having a thread that will mesh with the outer thread 12 on the sleeve.
- the sleeve 11 is anchored to the wall 20 by means of the screw joint 12 , 22 .
- the sleeve 10 lies in intimate contact with the screen 3 , 3 ′ around the whole of its circumference and tightly engages the wall 20 via the screw joint, so that the sleeve 10 will provide an EMI-tight connection to the apparatus housing (provided that the sleeve 10 and the wall 20 are made of a suitable material in this respect).
- the sleeve 10 is crimped onto the cable 1 so as to obtain an EMI-tight connection therewith.
- crimping is meant that the sleeve 10 is subjected to plastic deformation from an essentially circular, round state into a polygonal shape, as illustrated in FIG. 3.
- Such crimping of the strain relief sleeve 10 provides a highly durable anchorage of the end of the cable 1 to the sleeve 10 with respect to tensile forces or strain acting in the length direction of the cable, while providing, at the same time, an EMI-tight connection between the sleeve 10 and the cable 1 and subjecting the insulated conductors 24 to stresses that are generally safe with respect to the integrity of the conductors 24 .
- the crimping technique requires a larger material thickness of the sleeve 10 in the case of large diameter cables 1 (with maintained crimping deformation pattern), which normally means that the crimping tool must exert crimping forces that increase markedly with increasing diameters of the cable 1 and the sleeve 10 , by providing larger sleeves 10 with a circumferential groove 11 between its ends, and can limit the increase in requisite crimping forces that must be exerted by the crimping tool.
- This enables the use of a simple, and therewith cost favorable tool that includes exchangeable inserts that cover a whole series of differently sized sleeves 10 adapted to cables 1 of standard sizes.
- FIG. 4 and 5 illustrate one such simple tool 30 with associated inserts 40 .
- the crimping insert 40 is comprised of two mutually co-acting blocks 41 , 42 , which may be mutually identical.
- Each of the blocks 41 , 42 has an orthogonal parallelepipedic shape and each of the mutually opposing sides of the blocks includes a recess 43 , said recesses together defining an hexagonal opening when the blocks 41 , 42 are in mutual abutment.
- the hexagonal shape corresponds to the final external shape 10 ′ (FIG. 3) of the crimped sleeve 10 .
- Each block 41 , 42 has a guide pin 44 on one side of the recess 43 and a corresponding aperture or hole 45 on the other side thereof.
- a helical spring 48 is placed on the bottom of each aperture 45 .
- Each block 41 , 42 is therewith designed so that the pin 44 of one block 41 will fit into the hole 45 in the other block, and vice versa.
- FIG. 4 illustrates a tool handle 31 which has at one end a frame structure 50 formed by the end-part 32 of said handle, a so-called yoke 33 which is carried by two bolts 34 that extends perpendicularly through the yoke 33 and through the handle part 32 and take up forces that strive to move the yoke 33 away from the handle part 32 .
- the yoke has a recessed part 36 which receives an adjacent end of the block 42 .
- a guide plate 35 is carried on the inside of the frame structure 50 , parallel with the yoke 33 .
- the guide plate has a recess part 36 ′ with a bottom plate 39 which is movable along the bolts 34 and which lies normal to the handle part 32 .
- the insert 40 can be inserted laterally into the frame structure 50 in alignment with the recess 36 , whereafter the insert 40 is allowed to expand under the action of the spring 48 to the state shown in FIG. 4, where the insert 40 is thus held by the expansion forces of the springs 48 .
- the insert 40 can, nevertheless, be easily removed from the frame structure, by first compressing the insert and then tilting it out of the frame structure 50 .
- FIG. 4 Shown in FIG. 4 is a screw 37 which is threaded through a through-penetrating opening in the handle part 32 and acts against the bottom plate 39 in the recess 36 ′ in the plate 35 , such as to push the plate 35 towards the yoke 33 .
- the screw 37 is provided with a long, lateral lever 38 by means of which heavy torque can be exerted manually on the screw 37 , while rotational forces can be counteracted at the same time, by holding against the handle end 31 .
- the screw 37 and its co-acting thread in the handle 31 form a transmission mechanism for linear movement of the insert blocks 41 , 42 towards one another when crimping a sleeve 10 on the end-section of a cable 1 .
- a series of inserts 40 that have essentially identical external dimensions but recesses 43 of mutually different sizes can be used in conjunction with the tool 30 . These inserts 40 can be readily exchanged in the tool 30 , which has an extremely simple construction as evident from the aforegoing.
- the crimped sleeve and the crimping force engage all conductors, conductor insulation, screens and the like in the cable, so that all cable parts will obtain an axial force-coupling to one another and to the crimped sleeve, such that said cable components will not experience any relative axial movement when axial forces are applied. Furthermore, the crimping affords radial compression of the cable, so that the cable will be sealed against axial fluid throughflows between the cable components. It will also be noted that the crimp sleeve is a single ring-shaped element, which facilitates work in fitting the sleeve.
- the crimp sleeve is shown in FIG. 1 to be provided with an axial tubular extension having an outer thread, it will be understood that this extension can be omitted and a separate sleeve nut or the like that axially couples the sleeve to an externally thread leadthrough sleeve on an apparatus housing or the like instead.
Abstract
An EMI-tight strain relief for a cable having a tubular crimp sleeve which is crimped onto the end of the cable and which includes structure for securing the strain relief in an opening in the wall of an apparatus housing. The sleeve has a crimpable portion including a circumferential groove for equalizing the necessary crimping force.
Description
- The present invention relates to a cable strain relief of the kind defined in the preamble of claim 1.
- The invention also relates to a tool for fitting such a strain relief to a cable in accordance with the preamble of the independent claim directed to the tool.
- A strain relief is a connection element that is coupled to the circumference of a cable and enables forces that act in the length direction of the cable, i.e. axially acting forces, to be transferred to an external construction (e.g. a cable cabinet). Such a cable will normally include a bundle of individual, insulated conductors covered with screen braiding. An insulating sleeve is provided on top of the braiding.
- Such strain reliefs will preferably be electromagnetically impervious, i.e. provide electromagnetic insulation (EMI), and must also be capable of transferring forces effectively, so as to prevent individual fibers from being subjected to tensile forces in junction boxes or the like.
- A known type of strain relief intended for this purpose is comprised. of two tubular parts that have co-acting conical surfaces. One part (the inner part) has slits that extend axially from one end thereof, such as to form axially extending tongues. When the two parts are fitted together axially, the free ends of the tongues will be bent inwardly against the outside of the cable. The outer insulation is removed at the end of the cable and the braiding is folded back around the end of the remaining insulating sleeve. Consequently, when the two tubular parts are fitted together, parts of the braiding threads will be clamped between adjacent tongues. This often results in unsatisfactory anchoring of the strain relief to the cable.
- Other known strain reliefs incorporate a U-shaped element whose legs are bent in towards the cable so as to overlap each other. This solution can result in damage to the individual conductors in the cable, and may also cause EMI-leakages to occur through the overlap.
- Earlier known strain reliefs are expensive and require the use of complex devices for fitting the reliefs to cables, and also result in joints of greatly differing qualities.
- Accordingly, the object of the invention is to provide a strain relief that can be fitted to cables of different standard diameters with the aid of a simple tool, such as to obtain an EMI-tight connection and a uniform result on each occasion.
- Further objects of the invention will be evident from the following text, either directly or indirectly.
- This object is achieved fully or partially with the strain relief according to claim 1. The object is also achieved either fully or partially with the inventive tool defined in the independent claim directed to the tool.
- Further embodiments of the invention are defined in the accompanying dependent claims.
- The invention is basically concerned with establishing a strain relief for a screened cable that includes a plurality of conductors, by crimping a crimp sleeve on that part of the cable at which the braiding has been folded back over said cable, said crimp sleeve incorporating means which function to achieve an EMI-tight coupling of the sleeve to the wall of an apparatus housing at the cable leadthrough or transit. Crimp sleeves of this kind are available in various diameters, lengths and wall thicknesses adapted to different cable diameters, so as to ensure that the crimp sleeve will be effectively anchored to the cable with the aid of a crimping tool and therewith provide an EMI-impervious cable connection.
- In order to enable a generally uniform crimping force to be applied with sleeves of different diameters and different wall thicknesses, the larger crimp sleeves include a circumferential groove that reduces the crimping force required to achieve the requisite strain relief anchorage of the crimp sleeve to the cable.
- The inventive crimping tool for crimping such strain relief sleeves may include a tool frame structure that has two generally parallel and mutually opposing frame members. Two opposing crimp inserts are placed between the frame members. The inserts include on their mutually facing sides recesses for crimping a sleeve of corresponding diameter on a corresponding cable. A screw meshes with a threaded hole through one frame member, so that the screw can be screwed in a direction towards the second frame member such as to bring the two inserts together. The inserts include means for guiding relative movement in said direction. The two inserts also include spring means which strive to move the inserts apart in said direction.
- The two frame members have shallow recesses for receiving and localizing respective inserts. The tool can be used in conjunction with a set of insert pairs which each include crimping recesses that are adapted to crimp sleeves of correspondingly different sizes. In other respects, the insert pairs have generally equal outer dimensions in order to enable said insert pairs to be readily swapped in the frame structure. Owing to the relative guiding of the inserts and the spring means, the pair of inserts will be held automatically in the frame structure immediately the inserts are inserted thereinto, and can readily be replaced manually with another pair of inserts, by first pressing the fitted pair of inserts together against the action of the spring means and then tipping said inserts out one of the recesses and out of the frame structure. The recesses in the frame members are shallow recesses. The frame structure may conveniently have an elongated support arm and the screw may include a lever for facilitating rotation of the screw.
- The invention will now be described in more detail with reference to an exemplifying embodiment thereof and also with reference to the accompanying drawings.
- FIG. 1 shows an inventive strain relief fitted to the end of a cable and connected to the wall of an apparatus housing.
- FIG. 2 is a cross-sectional view taken on the line A-A in FIG. 1 and images the strain relief prior to being crimped on the end of the cable.
- FIG. 3 illustrates the configuration of the strain relief subsequent to being crimped on the end of the cable.
- FIG. 4 shows a tool for crimping the strain relief sleeve.
- FIG. 5 is a sectional view of a crimping tool insert.
- FIGS. 1 and 2 illustrate a cable1 comprising a
core 2 that includes a plurality ofinsulated conductors 24, saidcore 2 being provided with screening braiding 3 which, in turn, is embraced by acable casing 4. A length ofcasing 4 has been removed from the outermost end of the cable 1 and the braiding folded back over the remaining end part of thecasing 4. Astrain relief sleeve 10 is shown fitted over the backwardly foldedscreening part 3′ of said end section. The front part of thesleeve 10 includes an externally threadedsection 12 and also an outwardly opencircumferential groove 11 between its ends. Anopening 13 through the casing wall, for instance in thegroove 11, enables it to be ascertained whether or not thescreen 3′ is located immediately beneath thesleeve 10. FIG. 1 also shows thewall 20 of an apparatus housing. Thewall 20 includes an opening 21 having a thread that will mesh with theouter thread 12 on the sleeve. Thesleeve 11 is anchored to thewall 20 by means of thescrew joint sleeve 10 lies in intimate contact with thescreen wall 20 via the screw joint, so that thesleeve 10 will provide an EMI-tight connection to the apparatus housing (provided that thesleeve 10 and thewall 20 are made of a suitable material in this respect). - The
sleeve 10 is crimped onto the cable 1 so as to obtain an EMI-tight connection therewith. By crimping is meant that thesleeve 10 is subjected to plastic deformation from an essentially circular, round state into a polygonal shape, as illustrated in FIG. 3. Such crimping of thestrain relief sleeve 10 provides a highly durable anchorage of the end of the cable 1 to thesleeve 10 with respect to tensile forces or strain acting in the length direction of the cable, while providing, at the same time, an EMI-tight connection between thesleeve 10 and the cable 1 and subjecting theinsulated conductors 24 to stresses that are generally safe with respect to the integrity of theconductors 24. - The crimping technique requires a larger material thickness of the
sleeve 10 in the case of large diameter cables 1 (with maintained crimping deformation pattern), which normally means that the crimping tool must exert crimping forces that increase markedly with increasing diameters of the cable 1 and thesleeve 10, by providinglarger sleeves 10 with acircumferential groove 11 between its ends, and can limit the increase in requisite crimping forces that must be exerted by the crimping tool. This enables the use of a simple, and therewith cost favorable tool that includes exchangeable inserts that cover a whole series of differently sizedsleeves 10 adapted to cables 1 of standard sizes. - FIG. 4 and5 illustrate one such
simple tool 30 withassociated inserts 40. - The crimping
insert 40 is comprised of two mutuallyco-acting blocks blocks recess 43, said recesses together defining an hexagonal opening when theblocks external shape 10′ (FIG. 3) of thecrimped sleeve 10. Eachblock guide pin 44 on one side of therecess 43 and a corresponding aperture orhole 45 on the other side thereof. Ahelical spring 48 is placed on the bottom of eachaperture 45. Eachblock pin 44 of oneblock 41 will fit into thehole 45 in the other block, and vice versa. - Although the
blocks insert 40, it will be obvious to the person skilled in this art that theblocks pins 44, theholes 45 and thesprings 48, while retaining the function of said blocks. FIG. 4 illustrates atool handle 31 which has at one end aframe structure 50 formed by the end-part 32 of said handle, a so-calledyoke 33 which is carried by twobolts 34 that extends perpendicularly through theyoke 33 and through thehandle part 32 and take up forces that strive to move theyoke 33 away from thehandle part 32. The yoke has arecessed part 36 which receives an adjacent end of theblock 42. Aguide plate 35 is carried on the inside of theframe structure 50, parallel with theyoke 33. The guide plate has arecess part 36′ with a bottom plate 39 which is movable along thebolts 34 and which lies normal to thehandle part 32. - When the
blocks 41, 42 (FIG. 5) are pressed together such as to bring theiradjacent surfaces 46 essentially into contact with one another, theinsert 40 can be inserted laterally into theframe structure 50 in alignment with therecess 36, whereafter theinsert 40 is allowed to expand under the action of thespring 48 to the state shown in FIG. 4, where theinsert 40 is thus held by the expansion forces of thesprings 48. Theinsert 40 can, nevertheless, be easily removed from the frame structure, by first compressing the insert and then tilting it out of theframe structure 50. - Shown in FIG. 4 is a screw37 which is threaded through a through-penetrating opening in the
handle part 32 and acts against the bottom plate 39 in therecess 36′ in theplate 35, such as to push theplate 35 towards theyoke 33. The screw 37 is provided with a long,lateral lever 38 by means of which heavy torque can be exerted manually on the screw 37, while rotational forces can be counteracted at the same time, by holding against thehandle end 31. The screw 37 and its co-acting thread in thehandle 31 form a transmission mechanism for linear movement of the insert blocks 41, 42 towards one another when crimping asleeve 10 on the end-section of a cable 1. - A series of
inserts 40 that have essentially identical external dimensions but recesses 43 of mutually different sizes can be used in conjunction with thetool 30. Theseinserts 40 can be readily exchanged in thetool 30, which has an extremely simple construction as evident from the aforegoing. - When the crimp sleeve has been crimped firmly to the cable with a radial load that is distributed generally uniformly in the length direction of the sleeve, the sleeve will be deformed radially more pronouncedly at its ends (i.e. obtain a smaller diameter) than in its central region. This effect is apparently due to weakening of the sleeve wall by the
centre groove 11. This results in the section of cable located in the sleeve between its ends being stretched axially to some extent, which could be detrimental to the conductors in the cable. instead, the cable section is compressed in the crimp sleeve, wherewith inclination of the end-edges of the sleeve provides a particularly effective transfer of axial forces between the crimped sleeve and the cable. - It will be noted in particular that the crimped sleeve and the crimping force engage all conductors, conductor insulation, screens and the like in the cable, so that all cable parts will obtain an axial force-coupling to one another and to the crimped sleeve, such that said cable components will not experience any relative axial movement when axial forces are applied. Furthermore, the crimping affords radial compression of the cable, so that the cable will be sealed against axial fluid throughflows between the cable components. It will also be noted that the crimp sleeve is a single ring-shaped element, which facilitates work in fitting the sleeve.
- Although the crimp sleeve is shown in FIG. 1 to be provided with an axial tubular extension having an outer thread, it will be understood that this extension can be omitted and a separate sleeve nut or the like that axially couples the sleeve to an externally thread leadthrough sleeve on an apparatus housing or the like instead.
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1. A strain relief for a screen cable (1) comprising a plurality of conductors (24) which are surrounded by a common screen, and a cable casing embracing said screen, wherein the strain relief includes a sleeve (10), characterized in that the strain relief sleeve (10) is a tubular crimp sleeve that is crimped on the cable (1) on the screen (3′) folded back over the cable casing; and in that the crimp sleeve (10) embodies means (12) for coupling the strain relief sleeve (10) to an apparatus housing wall (20) via a cable leadthrough or transit (21).
2. A strain relief according to claim 1 , characterized in that in a series of crimp sleeves (10) of mutually different diameters, at least one sleeve of larger diameter has a circumferential groove (11) which functions to reduce the force required to crimp said sleeve.
3. A strain relief according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that the crimp sleeve (10) and the apparatus housing wall (20) are adapted to provide an EMI-tight connection of the cable (1) to the interior of the housing.
4. A strain relief according to claims 1-3, characterized in that the wall of the crimp sleeve (10) includes an inspection opening (13).
5. A tool for crimping strain relief sleeves (10) on cables (1) of corresponding diameter, characterized by a tool frame structure (50) having two mutually opposing legs (32, 33) which each carries one of two mutually opposing crimping blocks which together form a tool insert (40) and which when brought together function to crimp a crimp sleeve of corresponding diameter on the end section of an associated cable (1); in that said tool includes a screw (37) which is screwed through one (32) of the two frame legs for movement in a direction towards the other frame leg (33) such as to bring the blocks (41,42) of the insert (40) together; in that the blocks (41,42) of the insert (40) include means (44,45) for guiding relative movement in said direction; in that the tool includes spring means (48) which strive to separate the two insert blocks (41,42) in said direction; and in that at least one leg (32,33) of the frame structure (50) has a recess for receiving the end of one block-end of the insert (40).
6. A tool according to claim 5 , characterized in that one (32) of said mutually opposing legs (32,33) is comprised of an end-part of a handle means (31) and the screw (37) includes a generally radially extending lever (38), wherein the screw (37) co-acts with said one frame leg (32); and in that said other frame leg is provided with a plate (35) against which the screw (37) acts, wherein the plate (35) is guided for movement in the frame structure (50).
7. A tool according to claim 6 , characterized in that the plate (35) includes a recess (36) which receives one block-end.
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